pursiness

Then with one big fellow, the collapse of pursiness, he abandons his pedestal of universal critic; prostrate he falls to the foreigner; he is down, he is roaring; he is washing his hands of English performances, lends ear to foreign airs, patronises foreign actors, browses on reports from camps of foreign armies.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

A trifle more impressible, he might have imagined the smoky figure and magnum of pursiness barring the City against him.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

A trifle more impressible, he might have imagined the smoky figure and magnum of pursiness barring the City against him.

One of Our Conquerors — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868

Then with one big fellow, the collapse of pursiness, he abandons his pedestal of universal critic; prostrate he falls to the foreigner; he is down, he is roaring; he is washing his hands of English performances, lends ear to foreign airs, patronises foreign actors, browses on reports from camps of foreign armies.

Celt and Saxon — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868

A trifle more impressible, he might have imagined the smoky figure and magnum of pursiness barring the City against him.

One of Our Conquerors — Complete George Meredith 1868

Then with one big fellow, the collapse of pursiness, he abandons his pedestal of universal critic; prostrate he falls to the foreigner; he is down, he is roaring; he is washing his hands of English performances, lends ear to foreign airs, patronises foreign actors, browses on reports from camps of foreign armies.

Celt and Saxon — Complete George Meredith 1868